{"id":1004039,"date":"2011-10-26T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T04:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004039"},"modified":"2022-04-24T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T12:38:25","slug":"panama-day-11-779-784-and-torrijoss-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/birding\/2011\/10\/26\/panama-day-11-779-784-and-torrijoss-revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Day 11: #779-784 and Torrijos’s Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday I woke up with what I will politely call Torrijos’s Revenge<\/a>. I should have either A) stayed at the Lodge or B) stuffed up with Imodium but I stupidly did neither. Today’s plan was to drive pretty much as far down the road as we could get in a four-wheel drive, stopping to bird along the way. <\/p>\n

At the first stop we added #779, Buff-rumped Warbler, and I was feeling a little queasy.<\/p>\n

At the second stop we added #780, Crested Oropendola, and I was looking for a tree.<\/p>\n

At the third stop we added #781, Barred Puffbird, #782, Slate-colored Seedeater , and #783, Dusky-faced Tanager; and I was really starting to wish I hadn’t come.
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By the fourth stop I was completely incapacitated and just stayed in the truck and tried not to die. I missed out on a couple more lifers including a Woodpecker and a Sulphur-rumped Tanager, but at this point I just didn’t care. That shows you how sick I was. Fortunately Sandi had some Imodium with here, and that got me in enough shape to make the trip back and see an Ant5eater in a tree at one of the final stops; but I was still very glad to get back to the Lodge in time for lunch (which I mostly didn’t eat.)<\/p>\n

By the time lunch was over I was in much better shape so when we got word that a \tRufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo had been found up the road at the Canopy Lodge. I said “What the Hell” and went out with the group again. Fortunately the Imodium remained in effect and we found the bird, #784, two of them in fact. These are beautiful Roadrunner like birds that mostly hide deep in the forest, but can be found at Army Ant swarms. <\/p>\n

After the cuckoos we returned to the Lodge, bought our T-shirts, and drove back to Panama City for dinner and a night in a hotel before flying out the next morning. I skipped dinner and went straight to bed around 4:00 PM and didn’t wake up until 4:00 AM the next morning to catch my flight home. I’m not sure what was up with the flight. I got searched twice at the Panama airport; got held up in customs in Miami, got secondary screened going through Miami security; but I made my flight and arrived home around 6:00 PM (missing one bag American Airlines lost and eventually found). <\/p>\n

12 Days. 334 species. 242 life birds. Panama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday I woke up with what I will politely call Torrijos’s Revenge. I should have either A) stayed at the Lodge or B) stuffed up with Imodium but I stupidly did neither. Today’s plan was to drive pretty much as far down the road as we could get in a four-wheel drive, stopping to bird […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004039"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004044,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004039\/revisions\/1004044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}